#146: Brightening a bad day
‘Today might be shitty, tomorrow might be shitty, the next day might be shitty… but who’s to say that one of the next days won’t be the best day of your life?’ – Benjamin A. Collier
Author: theotherlivvy
#145: Classic car
‘There’s real life for you, embodied in that little cart. The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! Camps, villages, towns, cities! Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!’ – Kenneth… Continue reading #145: Classic car
#144: Legs
‘He always thought a muse should be sex on legs.’ – Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters
#143: Pie and mash
‘We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.’ – David Mamet, Boston Marriage
#142: Swan
‘I’ve developed into quite a swan. I’m one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older – until I drop dead of beauty.’ – Rufus Wainwright
#141: Industry
‘There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine…We see the beauty of combining gas, grease and steel into a powerful, exact movement. We appreciate the material destiny of the universe.’ – Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros
#140: Eyelashes
‘She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.’ – Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
#139: Fish
‘A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.’ – George Bernard Shaw
#138: Reflection
‘When we look in the mirror what we see is a version of who we imagine we are.’ – Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
#137: How to be ‘Chap’
‘I know these sorts of people. They’re not men. They’re mustaches with idiots attached.’ – Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers In Foyles…